Chagrined vs Poor - What's the difference?
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(chagrin)
Distress of mind caused by a failure of aims or plans, want of appreciation, mistakes etc; vexation or mortification.
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, chapter=1 A type of leather or skin with a rough surface.
To bother or vex; to mortify.
To be vexed or annoyed.
With little or no possessions or money.
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Of low quality.
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*, chapter=10
, title= To be pitied.
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*:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
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, chapter=15 Deficient in a specified way.
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Inadequate, insufficient.
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*(w) (1600-1666)
*:That I have wronged no man will be a poor plea or apology at the last day.
Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
*(Bible), (w) v.3
*:Blessed are the poor in spirit.
(with "the") Those who have little or no possessions or money, taken as a group.
As a verb chagrined
is past tense of chagrin.As an adjective poor is
with little or no possessions or money.As a noun poor is
with "the" Those who have little or no possessions or money, taken as a group.chagrined
English
Verb
(head)chagrin
English
Noun
- [H]e alone knew how deep was the deluded man's chagrin at the failure of the little plot which he fancied was prospering finely.
citation, passage=“Mrs. Yule's chagrin and horror at what she called her son's base ingratitude knew no bounds ; at first it was even thought that she would never get over it. […]”}}
Usage notes
* Often used in the form to one’s chagrin .Synonyms
* (distress of mind) disquiet, fretfulness, mortification, peevishness, vexation * (type of leather) shagreenDescendants
* shagreenSee also
* disgust * disappointmentVerb
(en verb)- She was chagrined to note that the paint had dried into a blotchy mess.
- (Fielding)
Usage notes
* The verb form is rarely found in other than passive voice.References
Anagrams
* ----poor
English
Adjective
(er)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.}}
citation, passage=Mr. Campion sighed. ‘Poor man,’ he said. ‘He sees his great sacrifices rejected by the gods, and so, no doubt, all the Misses Eumenides let loose again to plague him.’}}
Synonyms
* (little or no possessions) impoverished, wealthless, * (of low quality) inferior * (to be pitied) pitiable, * See also * See alsoAntonyms
* (having little or no possessions) rich * (of low quality) good * (deficient in a specified way) rich * (inadequate) adequateDerived terms
* poor man's * dirt poor * house poor * land poor * piss-poor * poor as a church mouse * poor box * poorhouse * poor power * poor relationNoun
(en-plural noun)- The poor are always with us.
